winch Cable Or Rope - benefit - Photo 06

One major benefit of rope over cable is weight. We found three samples of 100-foot-by-5/16-inch rope to weigh between 2 and 7 pounds depending on style and whether it had a hook on the end. The same size and length cable weighed 18 pounds, and that's without a hook! Additional weight is hard on the front suspension and much harder to drag through waist-deep, leach-infested swamps and up steep hills.